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'A sickening breeze'

It wasn’t until Kate walked into the villa at 10 and felt a sickening breeze—the front window had been jimmied open—that she realized something terrible had happened. “The scene was stark,” Gerry tells me. On one bed the twins lay sleeping. In the next lay only the plush cat toy Madeleine was never without. That was when Kate came out screaming, “Madeleine has gone!”Vanity Fair

“Kate must have tried Jon’s mobile once as we stirred when it rang at about 03h20. Jon spoke briefly with Kate and then called her around 03h30. I knew that Kate and Gerry were on holidays in Portugal. Kate was very anguished and on the telephone and told me that she had checked on the children every half-hour. It was around 22h00, and when she went to check on the children she found that someone had entered the apartment and taken Madeleine from where she slept; that Madeleine had been abducted. The person must have entered, passed by the twins and taken her.
Kate continued that when she entered the apartment via the patio doors, a breeze hit her in the face as if a door or window was open. When she entered the children’s room, the window was open, the blind had been forced and Madeleine had disappeared.Michelle Thompson in a statement to the Leicestershire police, april 2008

Erm, and I know there’s been a lot, when Kate, the night when we came back and Madeleine was gone, and I think that was something that had, erm, there had been some discussion about, because she’d, the door had slammed, erm, when she’d gone in, had slammed shut, and she’d gone back to look, thinking she’d left the French doors open and, in fact, they were shut and she thought, well where’s the breeze coming from, and it was then that she’d opened the door to realise that the window was open and that’s why the door had slammed”.Fiona Payne in a statement to the Leicestershire police, april 2008

DW: "Err well at that point I can’t, I can’t remember, a lot, a lot of what I’m saying is perhaps some of what was said on the night or seen on the night and also what was spoken about later, the fact that you know she, it was the fact the door had, had slammed shut that drew her attention to something not being right in the room, you know when she went to check on the children.”
PC: "Right.”
DW: "And err and that, that draught through the window had, had caused the door to slam.”
PC: "Is that the bedroom door that you understood it as?”
DW: "The children’s bedroom door.”Diane Webster in a statement to the Leicestershire police, april 2008

And because I was looking for, you know, well people say, well why didn’t you go in the room, why didn’t you check on Madeleine, you were, you said you’d go and check, but it was just that, we were just satisfying ourselves that nobody was upset and awake and crying, we didn’t expect that if I checked each three beds somebody, it just wasn’t sort of something that you thought about, you just thought, you know, is somebody, you know, upset, do they want their mum or something, you can say, you know, somebody might have vomited and you wouldn’t know about it, but there was, you know, nobody was awake, you thought, if something, just one, it’d be, it’d sort of feel a bit odd, you know, from the draughts, you know, when Kate went in something about the door shutting, there was, I presume, a through draught. So I just sort of went towards the doorway, I didn’t step over the threshold, I didn’t see Madeleine and I didn’t check, I turned round and came back out, said all was quiet when I got back to the table and then we went on with food.
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00.29.11 4078 “So you weren’t, just to clarify what you have said, you weren’t conscious of any draught?”
Reply “Yeah”.
4078 “The curtains were drawn and weren’t blowing around?”
Reply “Yeah”.
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Reply “No, no, we’ve talked about that before, I didn’t smell anything, I mean, I could see the children breathing, but I didn’t clock it as abnormal, erm, it’d be completely to speculate to say whether their breathing was fast or, I couldn’t say, I mean, they were breathing and that’s what, you know, and that was what I was there to check, erm, no, no funny sort of smells, no sort of funny draughts, no sort of funny sort of noises, no, erm, nothing that I can think of for that. I mean, it was a complete just a shock out of the blue when, you know, I’d been in and then suddenly somebody’s saying Madeleine’s missing, there was nothing that made me think, oh”.
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4078 "Okay. And then just to mop up the questions that were outstanding from the Portuguese, when you went into check Madeleine, Sean and Amelie the evening that Kate asked you to do that on the third of May, when you went in through their patio door did you close that after you went in?”
00:03:44 Reply "Err I, I’m fairly sure I would have closed that, if not completely to, I’m pretty sure the more I think about it though I would have closed it to, because I wouldn’t have wanted there to be err a sort of a funny draught or, or some noise, or something that made the door slam that would have woken them up so I pulled it to, behind me, but I can’t guarantee it was completely shut, but it would have been there or thereabouts.”Matthew Oldfield in a statement to the Leicestershire police, april 2008

Kate: Yeah, so I thought well I'll just close it over again, and as I went to close it over it slammed shut and I thought and it was like sort of you know a draught had caused it to shut so I turned behind me and I thought are the patio doors open and they were closed and I thought well that's strange so then I opened the door thinking I'll open it ajar a bit again and that was when I kind of looked into the room and when I just looked and it was quite dark and I was just looking and looking at Madeleine's bed and I was thinking is that her that I was looking for why isn't Madeleine there? And then in the end I walked over and thought oh, she's not in bed and then I thought maybe she's wandered through to our bed and that's why the door's open so I went through to our bedroom and she wasn't there and then I kind of see then I'm starting to panic a bit and I ran back into their room and literally as I went back into their room the curtains that were drawn over just "foooosh" flew open and that's when I saw that the shutter was right up and the window was pushed right oper. And that was when I just knew that erm someone had taken her. So I, I mean I ran to the window and I didn't know what I thought was going to see but I ran to the window and then I quickly hmm quickly looked through the wardrobes I had I suppose this temporary thought she was cowering in a wardrobe or something anyway she wasn't there and I just ran out and soon as...Kate McCann on the Oprah show, may 2009.

K: I did my check about 10.00 ‘clock and went in through the sliding patio doors and I just stood, actually and I thought, oh, all quiet, and to be honest, I might have been tempted to turn round then, but I just noticed that the door, the bedroom door where the three children were sleeping, was open much further than we’d left it. I went to close it to about here and then as I got to here, it suddenly slammed and then as I opened it, it was then that I just thought, I’ll just look at the children and I could see S and A in the cot and then I was looking at M’s bed which was here and it was dark and I was looking and I was thinking, is that M or is that the bedding. and I couldn’t quite make her out. It sounds really stupid now, but at the time, I was thinking I didn’t want to put the light on cos I didn’t wanna wake them and literally, as I went back in, the curtains of the bedroom which were drawn,… were closed, … whoosh … It was like a gust of wind, kinda, just blew them open and cuddle cat was still there and her pink blanket was still there and then I knew straight away that she had, er, been taken, you know.Kate McCann in C4 Cutting Edge documentary - Madeleine was here, april 2008

At 10pm, Kate went to check on the children. She went into the apartment, using her key and saw that the bedroom door was completely open, the window was also open, the shutters raised and the curtains open. The doors were locked except the one at the back as already noted above.Gerry McCann, in a statement to the Policia Judiciária, may 4th, 2007

At around 10pm, the interviewee went to check on the children. She went into the apartment by the side door, which was closed. She noticed that the door to her children's bedroom was completely open, the window was also open, the shutters raised and the curtains open, while she was certain of having closed them all as she always did.Kate McCann, in a statement to the Policia Judiciária, may 4th, 2007

Regarding the apartment: windows were closed but she doesn’t know if they were locked. Verandah window closed but not locked, curtains closed. The second window in the living room was probably closed, she did not touch it and does not know if the blinds were closed. The kitchen window was probably closed but with the blinds open as there was light in the kitchen.
The window in Madeleine’s room remained closed, but she doesn’t know if it was locked, blinds and curtains drawn. The window remained like this since the first day, night and day. She never opened it. If somebody saw the window blinds in Madeleine’s room open, it was not Kate who opened them, she never saw them open.Kate McCann, in a statement to the Policia Judiciária, September 6th, 2007

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13 comments:

REMARKABLE STORY! The mother said that was checking children every half a hour. The day before Madeleine vanished a neibour heard a child crying and calling for her dad for almost 45 minutes / 1 hour in the evening. On the day after Kate McCann went to check her children, saw the front window opened and what did she thought? "Oh my God Madeleine jumped off the window... or What's on earth are you Madeleine and she has started looking for her daughter outside NO! NO! NO! She new immediately Madeleine was abducted. And the thief went out by the window not by the door. A window is obviously easier to use that a door specially when we have a child on our arms. The other stupid secondary actress Jane something saw a man with a child on his arms but had no intelligence to make a connection with this and Madeleine disappearence! This sad story is full of holes and contradictions. This is a POLICE CASE waiting to BE SOLVED.The true is always simple and a lie is too complicated isn't it? That's why we use to say "lies have short legs". Hope they're better phisicians than storytellers or we will have more accidents soon.

Thanks for this Kazlux. Much to the chagrin of some, these priceless snippets of information can never be classed as 'old news' until this dreadful pair of liars sit down in a television studio or a police station or a court of law and finally attempt to explain the glaring (and impossible)'inconsistencies'.

It's been a heck of a long time since the lifting of those 'secrecy laws'.

She says she noticed that the door "was open much further than we’d left it", which either means that she was part of the previous checking, and that she didn't do it by herself, or that nobody came to check after they left to go to the restaurant - both in sheer contradiction with what she, her husband and their friends have been claiming so far.

It doesn't make sense. Something that doesn't make sense either is the weird investigation performed by Mr Edgar, who keeps the public informed of every step he takes to find the perpetrator, as if he needed to prove that he works for real, though his moves seem to me more fit to keep the public entertained than to investigate.

"She says she noticed that the door "was open much further than we’d left it", which either means that she was part of the previous checking, and that she didn't do it by herself, or that nobody came to check after they left to go to the restaurant..."

People keep saying this, but according to their statements, Gerry was the one who checked on the kids right before Kate. Surely, he would leave the door slightly ajar in the exact same position as they always did? I think that's a reasonable assumption on Kate's part.

Anonymous, Gerry was the one which checked before Kate, to make sure the body was well concealed and the main character( Kate) can come to the scene and ring the bell.... THE CIRCUS WAS READY TO BEGIN....

..."but I just noticed that the door, the bedroom door where the three children were sleeping, was open much further than we’d left it."

To me this does mean only one thing:

NO ONE had checked the children from the time that she and Gerry left the apartment to go to the Tapas (8:30?)! They knew how they'd "left it", and since, as far as we know, they did not instruct others on how the door should be positioned after "checking" it would be natural for that person(s) to leave it open, closed, half-closed, whatever! The only way they could have found it strange that the door was not as they'd left it ( and expect that it would be exactly as they'd left it!) was if they knew no one else had been in the apartment but them! In my opinion, of course...

..."Gerry tells me. On one bed the twins lay sleeping. In the next lay only the plush cat toy Madeleine was never without. That was when Kate came out screaming, “Madeleine has gone!”"

The twins sleeping in ONE bed?! What about the cots then? The police found those without any bedding, one of the cleaners said they used to be in a different position, to the left between the two beds, not in the middle of the room. Oldfield said that on his check, the door was at a 45% angle and that he did not enter the room but he could see the twins, but not Madeleine. If the door was at 45% and if the cots were in the middle of the room as one can see in the police photos, then I do not believe he could have clearly seen BOTH cots, the one on the right would have been hidden by the half-closed door. What does this mean? His he lying about his check? Why and what for did they move the furniture around?

Kate screamed "Madeleine HAS gone"!? This has a different meaning from "IS gone", doesn't it? "Has gone"...does this mean that Kate knew where Madeleine had gone to? For me the "is gone" means disappered, vanished, not there anymore and not knowing where she is, but the "has gone" means that she left to go somewhere.Do you know what I mean, am I making any sense, or is this a portuguese thing? If we say, in portuguese, " ela foi"(she has gone) it does not mean the same as " ela foi-se" (she is gone). The first implies the knowledge that the person has left, but the second implies disapperance, not knowing where the person is or that she has just died.

"The window in Madeleine’s room remained closed, but she doesn’t know if it was locked, blinds and curtains drawn. The window remained like this since the first day, night and day. She never opened it. If somebody saw the window blinds in Madeleine’s room open, it was not Kate who opened them, she never saw them open."

Can anyone trully believe this?!They NEVER opened the window, the shutters were kept down day and night? Are they telling us ( and expect us to believe) that they kept the room in total darkness all the time, that with all the lovely susnshine and natural daylight coming from the outside, they never opened that window? That they would rather put the lights on and not open the window in the morning as they woke the children up and got them dressed? With all that lovely natural day-light coming from outside? Nah...that sounds so lame...

In the C4 Cutting Edge doc. Kate says that she went through the sliding doors, that the bedroom door was much open than they'd left it and that when she went to close it it slammed.

On Oprah she doesn't say if she entered via the sliding doors, but mentions that when she noticed the draft she looked at them to see if they were closed. Well, if she had just entered through those, wouldn't she know wheter she had closed the behind her or not?

Gerry told the PJ that Kate entered via the front door, with her key, no mention to the door slamming or any draft despite the open window.The back door unlocked.

Kate told the PJ she entered through the side door which was closed. What door is this? The front door or the patio door? "She noticed that the door to her children's bedroom was completely open, the window was also open, the shutters raised and the curtains open, while she was certain of having closed them all as she always did."No mention to the door slamming, no draft! And, if she ALWAYS closed the shutters and curtains, the how does that add-up with her next statement :"The window in Madeleine’s room remained closed, but she doesn’t know if it was locked, blinds and curtains drawn. The window remained like this since the first day, night and day. She never opened it. If somebody saw the window blinds in Madeleine’s room open, it was not Kate who opened them, she never saw them open."?????????????????????????????????